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UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

N. PERKINS, OB` TAWARSINGL NEYV'YORK, ASSIGNOR TO PAUL DOW.

MANUFACTURING CORD BUTTONS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 9,210, dated August 17,1852.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, NELSON PERKINS, of Wawarsing, in the county of Ulster and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Method for Preparing Cord or Tape to be Used in the Manufacture of Buttons for Vhips; and I declare that the following is a full and exact description of the mode of manufacturing said cord or tape to be used in the forming of such buttons.

rI`he threads composing said cords or tape may be of cotton, linen, silk or gut. The cords or tape is prepared and formed by running the threads around a cylinder, or stretching them upon pegs in `such a manner that they shall come in close contact side by ide. They are then wet or sized with glue or some other adhesive substance and dried. In this latter state all the threads cohere, and are so fastened together as to resemble cloth with the threads all running the same way. rIhe tape may be made by gluing together only threads sulicient to make it of the proper width, or a larger number of threads may be glued together, and afterward separated into strands or tape of the proper width. By fastenin the end of the tape or strand into a nee le the button can be wrought must faster and be made more uniform than in the old way in which only a single thread is used.

A, in the annexed drawing represents a single thread before it is prepared.

B represents the thread when wound around a cylinder or flat surface in order to be glued together.

C, represents the threads or cords when glued together and before it is separated into tape.

1), represents the tape when ready for use.

E represents buttons stages of manufacture.

F, is a button as manufactured in the old way.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patentis- The preparation of the cords in the process of manufacturing cord buttons by gluing them together substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.

July 15, 1852.

in different NELSON PERKINS.

Attest:

JONATHAN BRUNDAGE, EDWIN BRUNDAGE. 

